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Name:
Amaryllis
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Botanical name:
Amaryllis
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Colour:
Pure white, pillarbox red, candy pink, peach. There are also striped varieties and ones with frilled or coloured edges to the petals.
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Name:
Baby's Breath
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Botanical name:
Gypsophila
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Colour:
Gypsophila has a chalky white flower, although cream and pale pink varieties are sometimes found.
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Meaning:
The botanical name means 'lover of chalk' - as this is the sort of soil the plant likes to grow in.
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Name:
Bird of Paradise
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Botanical name:
Strelitzia
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Colour:
A green 'beak' with a bright orange and blue crest, silvery-green leaves.
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Meaning:
Named Strelitzia after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Streliz, who married King George III to become Queen of England in 1761.
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Name:
Bouvardia
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Botanical name:
Bouvardia
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Colour:
Shades of pinks and red as well as white.
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Meaning:
The flowers are named after Parisian doctor Charles Bouvard, personal physician to Louis XIII and director of the Jardin des Plantes.
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Name:
Calla Lillies
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Botanical name:
Zantedeschia
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Colour:
Available all year round in shades of pinks, pale creams, and flesh tones, purple-black, yellow and terracotta oranges.
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Meaning:
Calla was the old Victorian name for them before they were renamed Zantedeschia.
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Name:
Carnation
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Botanical name:
Dianthus
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Colour:
Available in a huge range of colours, almost all except blue. A mauve carnation with a blue tinge has been developed by Florigene in Australia. But they look best in hot Latin shades of red, pink and orange.
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Meaning:
Dianthus, its botanical name, means divine flower. Carnation was the flesh-pink colour Elizabethan portrait painters used as a background wash.
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Name:
Cattelya
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Botanical name:
Cattelya
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Colour:
They occur in all colours except true blue and black.
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Name:
Christmas Rose
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Botanical name:
Hellebore
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Colour:
H. niger is either bright purest white, or a warm deep purple. H. corsicus has green or cream bell-like cups in clusters, while H. orientalis has speckled and streaked flowers in unusual shades of cream, green, purple and pink.
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